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ROOSEVELT, Belle, Kermit ROOSEVELT & others. Cleared for Strange Ports, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 8° (215 x 148mm). Half-title, 17 plates. Original green cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt (extremities slightly bumped). Provenance: Hugh Wilkinson (presentation inscription dated 1927). FIRST EDITION inscribed to the British envoy to Nepal. Wilkinson was the Roosevelts' host during a tiger hunting trip which is described in the final chapter. Wilkinson has added pencilled notes and corrections.
ROOSEVELT, Theodore (1858-1919) & Edmund HELLER (1875-1939). Life-histories of African Game Animals, New York: 1914. 2 volumes, 8° (240 x 166mm). Half titles, plates, maps. Original cloth, leather spine labels, top edges gilt (lightly soiled, labels rubbed). Provenance: Theodore Roosevelt (armorial bookplates). FIRST EDITION. Czech p.139.
With a typed letter signed, from Roosevelt to his publishers, Scribner's and Sons, March 19, 1910, 1p., 4to, giving details of presentation copies to be sent out; typed letter signed from Roosevelt to retailers F.C. Huyck and Sons, July 1, 1897, 2pp. 8vo, suggesting some improvements to their sleeping bags; menu for a dinner held in honour of Roosevelt in Nairobi, 3rd August, 1909, signed in pencil and with ink portraits and another edition of the second work above. (7)
ROOSEVELT, Theodore (1858-1919) & Edmund HELLER (1875-1939). Life-histories of African Game Animals, New York: 1914. 2 volumes, 8° (240 x 166mm). Half titles, plates, maps. Original cloth, leather spine labels, top edges gilt (lightly soiled, labels rubbed). Provenance: Theodore Roosevelt (armorial bookplates). FIRST EDITION. Czech p.139.
With a typed letter signed, from Roosevelt to his publishers, Scribner's and Sons, March 19, 1910, 1p., 4to, giving details of presentation copies to be sent out; typed letter signed from Roosevelt to retailers F.C. Huyck and Sons, July 1, 1897, 2pp. 8vo, suggesting some improvements to their sleeping bags; menu for a dinner held in honour of Roosevelt in Nairobi, 3rd August, 1909, signed in pencil and with ink portraits and another edition of the second work above. (7)
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Please note there are 5 items in this lot and not 7 as stated in the catalogue. There is only one copy of the 2-volumed work, Life-histories of African Game Animals.